Addict admits HIV threat to guard

A drug addict with 221 convictions who bit a security guard and threatened to infect him with HIV is to be sentenced later at…

A drug addict with 221 convictions who bit a security guard and threatened to infect him with HIV is to be sentenced later at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Denise McNulty (33), St Mary’s Mansions, Railway Street, pleaded guilty to assault and theft on Grafton Street in December 2010.

She also pleaded guilty to possession of a syringe and threatening a woman with a syringe at an ATM on Lower Baggot Street in January 2010.

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